Just A Minute: Volume 11

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This is MinuteEarth’s guide to the best science content from our studio and beyond. Every edition includes stuff we’re working on, along with other cool new science-related stories we want you to know about - plus some original games just for subscribers! Make sure to subscribe below so you never miss a minute 🙂.

Kate and I recently got back from a trip to a place where I used to work: Monkey Island! It was so cool to reunite with my primate friends down in the Caribbean; I could spend hour after hour watching them frolic in the ocean. You’ll see more of them in an upcoming video…

The Minute team published several awesome videos on our various channels over the last few weeks.

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This Video Took Us 8 Years To Make
This was one of my favorite videos to make - and probably the most painful. It’s a chronicle of my repeated failures to make a video titled “What Is A Species?”

xkcd’s What If?

What if you used a flamethrower as a snowblower?
I mean, this title is pretty self-evident. But the video gets pretty ridiculous as we explain the amount of melting power you’d need to effectively clear the way as you drove.

MinuteFood

How fresh is the fish at your grocery store?
In this video, Kate reveals an ironic twist in our quest for the freshest-tasting food: at the supermarket, it’s often better to buy frozen fish.

• MinuteEarth just passed π million subscribers on YouTube, which is kinda cool:

  

• In honor of Pride Month, we put our crowd-favorite Earthling Pride t-shirt on sale (20% off!) in our merch store.

  

• Ever is reading Paul Lockhart’s The Mending of Broken Bones, the latest masterpiece from his favorite mathematician:

  

• Our friends Tibees just announced preorders for her new book, A Guide To Making Friends in the Fourth Dimension. 

• Arcadi recommends The Chinese periodic table goes hard, by ElitPonkots.

• Henry somehow came across the 14 year old Interactive YouTube drum machine, which is pretty fun and clever. 

• Grist interviewed our friend Emily Graslie about how federal budget cuts have cost us all so much awesome science content (including an amazing series she was working on.) 

• Ever recommends this absurdist video by Captain Disillusion about how blur is made.

by Matthew Goldenberg

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